Hub puller



June 28, 1932. L. B. KICK 1,865,420

HUB FULLER Original Filed May 23, 1930 41% alm;

Patented June 28, 1932 1 I UNITEE STATES PATENT QFFEQE LAWRENCE 2B. KICK, OF PINE LAWN, MISSOURI HUB FULLER Application filed May 23, 1930, Serial No. 454,933. Renewed November 18, 1931.

This invention relates to certain new and crum upon the end of the axle while the useful improvements in hub pullers, the pecubolts are in tension, and adapted to be driven liarities of which will be hereinafter fully directly against the axle by the force of a described and claimed. hammer blow upon said slidable piece.

5 The main objects of my invention are first, The groove 4 in the hub is engaged by a 55 to provide an efficient hub puller; secondly, back or inner plate 7 of my device with a to provide a hub puller adapted to transmit a notch 8 of U-shape so that the said plate directly to the axle from which it is desired may slip over the hub and the face adjacent to remove the wheel hub, the full force of a to the notch forms shoulders to engage corhammer blow while the hub itself is under responding shoulders of the groove and bring 60 stress of tension bolts; thirdly, to apply such the tension bolts mounted in the ends of starting force to the axle without damage to said plate, practically in the same horizonthe threads on the ends of the axle; and tal plane X through the axis of the axle as fourthly, to other objects hereinafter deindicated in Fig. 3. The head end of these scribed and claimed. bolts is fixed in the said plate 7 by means of 65 In the accompanying drawing on which square holes and carriage bolts or other like reference numerals indicate correspondmeans. ing parts, Another plate 9 is disposed parallel to the Fig. 1 represents a plan view of my device inner plate and has matching holes for receppartly in section as applied to an axle havtion of the outer ends of tension bolts 10 pass- 7 ing a wheel hub mounted thereon, as shown ing loosely through the outer plate and havin section; ing on their ends castle nuts 11 the flanges 12 Fig. 2, an end view of the outer plate of of which bear on the outer side of the plate my device; and 9 and are preferably provided with sleeves Fig. 3, a face view of the inner plate of 13 loosely mounted in the outer plate and 75 my device. extending inward around the threaded ends The numeral 1. designates the axle or rear of the tension bolts to guard such threads shaft of an automobile preferably tapering from contact with the plate 9 in the adjusthaving its outer end 2 threaded for the usual ment of same.

hub cap. This axle is mounted in hub 3 hav- Centrally disposed in the outer plate 9 is 80 ing a circumferential groove 1 forming shoula hole 14 in the plane X of the tension bolts ders near the disc wall 5 of the brake drum and axis of the shaft. In this hole is loosely to the front of which is fastened the wheel mounted the rounded body portion 15 of a plate 6 in the usual manner. slidable piece having a collar 16 forming a Various means have been used to remove resisting shoulder 17 adapted to bear on the such a hub from a wheel axle, which is necinner face of the plate 9. The outer end 18 essary whenever any repairs are to be made of said piece is hexagonal or otherwise adaptin overhauling the rear end, to reline the ed for turning the piece to mount its inner brakes, and in practically all cases of trouble end 19 having a threaded socket adapted to with the rear end of an automobile. Such fit upon the threaded end 2 of the axle and previous devices have depended mainly upon seat the end of the axle against the bottom the Wedging action of screws applied to the of the socket as indicated in Fig. 1. axle in one direction while tension bolts or WVhen the castle nuts 11 on the ends of other means applied to the hub in the oppotension bolts 10 are turned up, they draw site direction. Such a screw pressure is often the plates towards each other until the shoulinsuflicient to start the relative movement of der 17 bears against the inner face of the the axle in regard to the hub. plate 9 as a fulcrum, and further turning of In my device I apply bolts under tension the nuts will put a tension on the bolts and tending to pull the hub from the axle in con this tension is resisted by the shoulder 17, as nection with a slidable piece acting as a fula fulcrum. Such action tends to pull the which groove is considerably more than the thickness of the outer plate 9. Thus the hammer blow upon the end 18 of said piece will cause it to slide inward with the axle when the latter starts from its frozen connection with the hub, and the inner movement of said slidable piece will be limited by said collar 20 bringing it up against the outer plate 9. This collar 20 has the function of keeping the parts of the device conveniently connected without interfering with the slidable motion of the centrally disposed piece in the hole 14.

I claim:

1. A hub puller comprising two plates, tension bolts connecting said plates, one plate having a notch adapted to fit into a groove in a hub and the other plate having a hole centrally disposed between said bolts, and a slidable piece loosely mounted in said hole and having a shoulder adapted to bear on the plate when the bolts are tensioned and also to engage its end with an axle disposed in said hub and in line with said slidable piece, substantially as described.

2. A hub puller comprising two plates, tension bolts connecting said plates, one plate having a notch adapted to fit into a groove in a hub on an axle and the other plate having a hole centrally disposed between said bolts, and a slidable piece loosely mounted in said hole and adapted to engage said axle and having two collars forming a groove of greater width than the thickness .of the plate in which it is mounted, one collar being adapted to engage the inside of the plate to resist the tension of the bolts and the other collar to limit the sliding movement of the piece in the hole and against the axle engaged by said piece, substantially as described.

3. A hub puller comprising two plates having boltholes near their ends, tension bolts mounted in said holes and connecting said plates, one plate having a notch forming shoulders substantially in the plane of said bolts and adapted to engage corresponding shoulders in a hub mounted on an axle disposed in said notch and the axle having a threaded end adjacent to the other plate, and a slidable piece mounted in a central hole in the latter plate and having a threaded socket adapted to engage the end of the axle and lso having a resisting shoulder engaging the inner face of the plate in which it is mounted to serve as a fulcrum when the bolts are tensioned, substantially as described. 4. A hub puller comprising two parallel inner and outer plates having holes near their ends, tension bolts having their heads fixed in the inner plate and their threaded ends passing loosely through the outer plate, castle nuts on said bolts adapted to bear on the outside of the outer plate and having sleeves loosely mounted in the outer plate and guarding the bolt threads therefrom. and a slidable piece centrally disposed in the outer plate and having a resisting shoulder adapted to engage the inner face of the outer plate as a fulcrum when the bolts are tensioned. substantially as described. I In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

LAWRENCE B. KICK. 

